Well I’ll Be Dipped. Or Washed.
My friend Hollie posted an article in her blog a while back about the virtues of making one’s own laundry detergent. Now while I’m into the DIY thing and I like to make lots of stuff from scratch, it...
View ArticleMillions of Peaches…Peaches for Me….
Well, not millions. Last year we planted a Frost Peach tree near our garden, and waited to see what it would do. This spring it had lots of beautiful pink blossoms, which our honeybees seemed to...
View ArticleJanuary Warm Ups
Last week we had some very cold weather, with the chance of snow. Snowpocalypse, if you listened to the news. Right. We never saw any snow where I live, but it did get down considerably cold for a...
View ArticleRose Petal Fizzy Water
A week or two ago, I wandered into a European deli to peruse the foodstuffs, all with labels I couldn’t read. I didn’t care. It was fun to look at the foods and try to figure out what they were...
View ArticleKing Cake
Happy Mardi Gras! Or Fat Tuesday. Or day before Ash Wednesday. Or “last chance to pig out before Lent”. Or something. Being neither Catholic nor from the South, it’s all very nebulous to me....
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Stupidly Easy White Bread
I remember when I was first really learning to cook from scratch, I tried making bread a few times. Abject. Failure. Invariably, the bread would rise high and then crash in the oven, becoming...
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Rheum rhubarbarum.
Rheum rhubarbarum sounds like some character out of a bad space opera, but it’s the scientific name of rhubarb. Just one of those weird little trivia tidbits that get lodged in the wrinkles in my...
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Great E-Scapes
Today was one of those days where I puttered in the garden. “I don’t want to weed the garlic,” I thought. “Well, maybe I’ll just pull that one big weed.” And I pulled it. And it came out easily, and...
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Easiest Berry Pies
Strawberry season is either nearly over or completely over, depending on where you are in the country. (We have maybe a week more here…got a late start this year!) Raspberries are up next, then we’ll...
View ArticleZucchinocalpyse is Nigh!
This is the time of year where you can’t leave your car windows rolled down, for fear that your neighbors will jam zucchini through the window and run away. And if you hear the doorbell, you better...
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